The Cycling Podcast presents Life in the Peloton

Life in the Peloton is back after a break during the Vuelta a España and for this episode I spoke to two young Kiwi champions who are going to have very big futures. If you don’t know the name Fisher-Black yet, I reckon you’re going to hear it a lot in the coming months and years.

Niamh and Finn Fisher-Black are brother and sister who are both racing at World Tour level. Niamh is 21 and in her first year with the SD Worx team after a couple of seasons with Bigla Pro Cycling. This season she was ninth overall at the Giro and won the best young rider classification.

Her younger brother Finn is still only 19 and he started the season with the Jumbo-Visma development team. As you’ll hear, he was starting to be integrated in the Pro Jumbo-Visma team and rode the Baloise Belgium Tour for them in June, finishing fourth overall in a race won by Remco Evenepoel. That turned out to be his final race for Jumbo-Visma because in July he made a mid-season switch to UAE-Team Emirates.

I wanted to find out more about Niamh and Finn, how they grew up racing and training together and their transition over into the pro ranks. Listening to them speak about their transition from New Zealand to European pro life reminded me of my move so many years ago and the commitment it takes to move to the other side of the World to try to make it in the sport.

I really enjoyed this chat, I hope you enjoy the listen.

Stay tuned next week for our Talking Luft!

Cheers,
Mitch

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Theme Music

The theme music for Life in the Peloton was composed by Pete Shelley, who was lead singer of the punk band Buzzcocks. It was commissioned by the production company behind Channel 4’s coverage of the Tour de France in the 1980s and was used as the theme music for the nightly highlights show. Pete died in December 2018. We were given permission by Pete’s widow and his manager to continue using the music for the theme tune to Life in the Peloton. To hear more about the music, listen to the Andre Greipel episode of Life in the Peloton.

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